Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with recollections of Halloween pranks), sometimes eloquent, always forthright. Stevenson laid into his rival, Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, with one haymaker after another. He accused the Green administration of shaking down Illinois businessmen, of being responsible for the deaths of in men in last spring's Centralia mine tragedy, of neglecting the upkeep of once-model state institutions. He cried: "The unconscionable spoils machine which . . . now holds the state in its grip . . . must be uprooted and the earth scorched...
...Mine, I fear, is not a well-regulated mind: it has an occasional tenderness for old abuses; it lingers with a certain fondness over the days of nasal clerks and top-booted parsons, and has a sigh for the departed shades of vulgar errors. -George Eliot...
...mountains and work the claim, which had reverted to Simon. She tended the llama-dung fire, melted the snow for drinking water, and prodded Simon on when he tired of hacking away at the mountainside. When he finally struck the rich lode that became the fabulous La Salvadora mine, she helped load the sacks with ore, bring it down on llama-back, and grind it on a millstone...
...their luck to find the rich mine just when European supplies of tin were running out. Soon Bolivia was overrun with tin-hunters. When Simon foolishly agreed to sign away the mine for $350,000, iron-willed Albina knocked the pen from his hand...
...ARBOR, Mich., Feb., 24--"I'll take mine scrambled" was Art Valpey's reply tonight to the suggestion that he would take over Dick Harlow's post as Curator of Oology when he arrives in Cambridge...